2004-02-24
Australian musician Paul Kelly delivers two discs worth of analysis about love and relationships. Although this all starts out and ends with instrumentals, the rest of the collection moves from folk-based love triangle to mopey rocker to pop-sounding plea and back again.
Call it a little Thesaurus of the Heart from Down Under.
Some songs are poetic, a few are sappy; some are brazen, others are thoughtful. Sounds like an attempt to write the Story of Love.
Did he succeed?
Give it a listen.
BLACK LIPS
Two Hundred Million Thousand
MATTHEW RYAN VS. THE SILVER STATE
Matthew Ryan Vs. The Silver State
NUTTIN BUT STRINGZ
Struggle From the Subway to the Charts
THE LONG BLONDES
"Couples"
PETER WOLF
MIDNIGHT SOUVENIRS
HOT CHIP
Made In The Dark
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